There are individual awakenings and there are societal awakenings.

Individual Awakenings

When one obtains insight, knowledge, and wisdom about their earthly lives, it is referred to as a spiritual awakening or blossoming.

Spiritual growth and energy are the desired results of an awakened spirit and spiritual feelings. An awakened spirit is one that becomes an active partner in your life to better guide you in your life journey. An awakened spirit helps you gain insight, knowledge, and wisdom about your life. An awakened spirit is one where the spiritual energies of the energy body are used to develop your spiritual abilities.
As you obtain insight, knowledge, and wisdom about your earthly life, it is important to see the total aspect or picture of your life experience: both good and bad experiences. These spiritual tools can help you find meaning and purpose in your life. These energies can help you gain insight and understanding.

An awakened spirit is one where the spiritual energies of the energy body are used to develop your spiritual abilities.

These spiritual tools can help you find meaning and purpose in your life. These energies can help you gain insight and understanding.

Societal Awakenings
A societal awakening is an event or occasion where great combinations and masses of fragments decide to change their experiences from one course to another. 

These blossoming's can occur quickly and fade, or may take considerable amounts of time. 

The more constrictive the society, the more the awakening energies are held within until they explode into view.  However, after the explosions, which may of course take a year or several, the fallout occurs nearly as quickly and events generally settle into a drab sort of existence Things have changed but things have not. 

For example, the French Revolution; a quick violent bloody awakening that when it was complete the common individual was in the same status as before except for various unimportant changes, for example, the poor were still poor.  Their basic education and opportunity for advancement had not changed.  The previous rulers were gone, but in their place were rulers of similar nature and types.  A king was replaced with an emperor and the common people still did not have any great say in their government. 

However, the American awakening was over several decades, perhaps centuries, and through slow change, opportunities were steadily advanced to those who had not.  Thomas Jefferson’s purpose was to be sure that this awakening, although slow, was given the proper direction.  He could only do this by realizing that the awakening was a slow process, planning his future life for such and then in his lifetime espousing those ideals that were important for the society to understand.  These concepts would have not had the same impact and force in the French Revolution, for they would have been lost in the clamor and activity. We are still experiencing the American awakening.  It has not stopped yet. 

Great movements start when large groups of society feel positive about certain ideals and concepts. Once a sufficient mass of the population is so focused from that group natural leaders will arise to catalyze the ideals.  These leaders may or may not produce the best of results.  If the results are positive, the movement moves rapidly on.  If the results are negative, the leader is usually left behind and a second or third arises to replace them.  In other words, great movements are self producing of leadership.  They key is to create the necessary mass of popular ideals which will then allow the movement to self lead. 

There are two ways events happen. Either through physical force or political motivation. Physical force will only be effective for short brief periods of time, but political motivation of society is long term and long lasting. 

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